: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
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Iran and Israel have previously accused each other of using cluster bombs.—CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026 In and around Haifa, in northern Israel, NBC News witnessed at least three places that had been hit, likely with Iranian cluster bombs.—Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026 Iran also hit multiple sites around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Saturday and Israel's military says Iran is increasingly using cluster bombs.—Npr Staff, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026 Israel's military says Iran is firing cluster bombs that can evade some air defenses and scatter submunitions across multiple locations.—Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cluster bomb